How I Eat

• I mostly just like the crunchy sugary outsides of jelly beans. I gently bite around until it all falls out and then throw away the jelly insides.
• I swish Jell-O around in my mouth until it is liquid, then swallow.
• When eating a bowl (or entire bag) of popcorn, I pick through and eat all of the white pieces first. Then I go for the yellow, buttery pieces so that I will have the taste of them in my mouth last. Sometimes I'm full before I finish the yellow ones, but I eat them anyway because, goshdarnit, I ate them in that order for a reason!
• I also eat the partially popped kernels.
• And suck the salt from the unpopped kernels.
• I eat with my fork in my left hand and my knife in my right hand, so when I eat mashed potatoes, I butter them onto my meat.
• A bowl of cereal is actually 3 bowls of cereal, as I always put waaay too much milk in the first bowlful. Instead of drinking it or dumping it, I just keep adding more cereal until it's gone.
• We have two Campbell's Soup mugs -- a tomato soup one and a pea soup one. I can only use them for their designated soups. I get upset if the one I need is unavailable because someone else took it. In that case, I can only use a plain white mug for my soup.
  
• I always string my string cheese.
• Oreos: Only Double Stuf. Remove one chocolate cookie. Discard. Break remaining cookie with cream in half. Sandwich together to create new, Quadruple Stuf Oreo. Dunk.
• When I eat macaroni and cheese (specifically Kraft white cheddar), I put one noodle on each tine of my fork.
• Goldfish crackers must be bitten in half lengthwise, so as to create two complete half-fish (if it is possible to have something be half and complete).
• I pick around the purple Skittles. Erm, I mean, my students don't like the purple ones, and so they ask me to leave those in the container.